and if they're not canceled, they're bumped, delayed, driven back while the pilot's on the phone arguing with dispatch
basically commercial air is being forced to serve the niche that passenger/high-speed rail does in other countries, like how buses awkwardly pretend to be light rail as "BRT"; it just ends up the worst of both worlds

like the health insurers, they can only act the way they've been because of their captive market
foreign competition might put a dent in the service gap, but without HSR it's still a malformed system where planes have to be dedicated to short, money-losing hops to keep the hubs supplied with passengers

they shaved down some of the hill, though it's still basically "fly towards the bigger hill and turn left" (and me in a starboard seat)
they used to have to have a traffic light because truck drivers would sometimes be killed in wrecks from the backwash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFUbIj5G8U